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Herbert G Feldman Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Herbert G Feldman Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$197k
Granted FY2025still arriving
45
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$295kEducation$261kAnimals$227kHuman Services$126kReligion$98kPublic Safety & Disaster$98kEnvironment$73kHousing & Shelter$72kOther$0
02FY2025 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k39 grants · $120k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $77k
$3,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$3.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RIVERLIFE$15,000
Individual grant recipient$14,000
WEATHERFORD WAGS$13,050
LIGHT OF LIFE RESCUE MISSION$12,723
WEATHERFORD COLLEGE DOUNDATION INC$12,000
SALVATION ARMY$10,000
SAINT JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH$8,000
PLEASANT HILLS VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY$8,000
GIFTCARDS 4 CHANGE INC$6,000
CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION$6,000
ALLEGHENY GENERAL HOSPITAL$5,320
CAREITY FOUNDATION$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH - JOHNSTOWN$5,000
CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH$5,000
THREE RIVER WATERKEEPERS$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $97k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LIGHT OF LIFE RESCUE MISSION: $13k → 11%KEYSTONE ADOLESCENT CENTER INC: $2k → 13%THINGS OF MY VERY OWN INC: $300 → 12%CLOUD COVERED STREETS: $2k → 11%LIGHT OF LIFE RESCUE MISSION: $12k → 11%LIGHT OF LIFE RESCUE MISSION: $7k → 11%LIGHT OF LIFE RESCUE MISSION: $5k → 11%CENTER OF HOPE: $10k → 8%CENTER OF HOPE: $2k → 8%CENTER OF HOPE: $1k → 8%BRASHEAR ASSOCIATION INC: $2k → 11%BRASHEAR ASSOCIATION INC: $1k → 11%LIGHT OF LIFE RESCUE MISSION: $13k → 11%LIGHT OF LIFE RESCUE MISSION: $12k → 11%LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES: $5k → 11%LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES: $5k → 11%LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES: $5k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
CA
CO
MO
VA
AZ
TN
LA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 76 repeat orgs$228k to everyone else

76 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2025, 51 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

76
55

Total granted

$1.4M
$162k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+24%

Still filing today

43%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthAnimalsHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • LO
    LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $76k · revenue +85%
  • ZS
    ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PITTSBURGH
    8× · 2017–2025 · $70k · revenue +39%
  • CF
    CAREITY FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $52k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • DA
    DREAMLIFE ALLIANCE INC
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -47% · 27% of their budget
  • MA
    MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $8k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Spca of Pittsylvania County Inc

The spca of pittsylvania county is committed to rescuing adoptable animals from impoundment and euthanasia, so they can be placed in proper homes. this is acheived primarily through vetting, fostering, and placing the animals in their…

Animals
2
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Tampa Bay Florida Inc

Spca tampa bay is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that operates pinellas county's only nonprofit for-all animal shelter assisting all animals in need, regardless of species or circumstance, at its 10-acre campus in largo. (continued on…

Animals
3
Humane Pennsylvania

Humane pennsylvania empowers the people in our communities to increase their capacity to care for animals so that all animals are healthy, safe, and treated humanely.

Animals
4
Pet Animal Welfare Society of Connecticut Inc

Pet animal welfare society of ct (paws), established in 1962, is a no-kill animal rescue shelter dedicated to the rescue and adoption of our community's homeless and abused dogs and cats. paws efforts are focused on three critical needs:…

Animals
5
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Wake County Inc

Located in raleigh, nc, the spca of wake county works in over half the state of north carolina through collaborative partnerships that save pets and help people. significant activities include: decreasing the number of animals entering…

Animals
6
Shadyside Hospital of Pittsburgh
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7
Adams County Pet Rescue

Rescue, care, and find homes for abandoned and/or abused animals.

Animals
8
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…

Animals
9
Paws Crossed Animal Rescue Inc

To aid in animal rescue and provide medical care, nourishment, and a safe haven for abandoned, abused, and disabled animals. to engage in education, advocacy and collaboration in its mission "to rescue one by one until there are none".

Animals
10
Animal Rescue League of Boston

The animal rescue league of boston's vision is to confront animal cruelty and neglect at its root causes. through programs, services, and facilities focused on accessible animal care, public advocacy, and sustained anti-cruelty efforts...…

Animals
11
Wags Rescue & Referral

Wags rescue & referral is a small group of volunteers from bucks county, philadelphia and montgomery county, pa. the non-profit was established to help dogs affected by hurricane katrina by placing them in loving and safe homes. although…

Animals
12
Pennsylvania Veterinary Foundation

The mission of animal care pa is to help caring people help animals by bridging the gap through our animal welfare initiatives that feed, care and educate.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humane Animal Rescue; the most unlike its peers is Giftcards 4 Change Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

67 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 67 of the 152 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/67
Grantees still filing
47/67
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WEATHERFORD COLLEGE: $93,000 · OtherWEATHERFORD COLLEGEIndividual grant recipient: $77,044 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH: $66,300 · OtherCHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGHPLEASANT HILLS VOLUNTEER FIRE CO: $61,000 · OtherPLEASANT HILLS VOLUNTEER FIRE COIndividual grant recipient: $55,115 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSAINT JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH: $51,000 · OtherKNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS: $44,620 · OtherSALVATION ARMY: $40,958 · OtherCLOVERLEAF AREA ECUMENICAL FOOD BANK: $37,200 · Other+95 more: $499,081 · Other+95 moreZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PITTSBURGH: $69,500 · AnimalsZOOLOGICAL SOC…NATIONAL AVIARY IN PITTSBURGH INC: $50,000 · AnimalsNATIONAL AVIAR…THE FORT WORTH ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION: $30,000 · AnimalsTHE FORT WORTH…NO DOG LEFT BEHIND INC: $16,000 · AnimalsNO DOG LEFT BE…WEATHERFORD WAGS: $13,050 · AnimalsWEATHERFORD WA…BEAVER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $11,000 · AnimalsGuardian Angels for Soldier's Pet: $8,000 · Animals+7 more: $18,000 · Animals+7 moreCAREITY FOUNDATION: $52,300 · HealthCAREITY FO…SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $28,000 · HealthSHRINERS H…MAGEE-WOMENS RESEARCH INSTITUTE AND FOUNDATION: $13,000 · HealthMAGEE-WOME…Ronald McDonald House Global: $12,375 · HealthRonald McD…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $12,000 · HealthAMERICAN C…American Heart Association Inc: $6,750 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $6,500 · Health+8 more: $27,300 · Health+8 moreLIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC: $75,948 · Human ServicesPARKER COUNTY CENTER OF HOPE INC: $13,000 · Human ServicesTHE BRASHEAR ASSOCIATION INC: $3,300 · Human Services+3 more: $4,300 · Human ServicesRIVERLIFE: $50,250 · EnvironmentPYMATUNING LAKE ASSOCIATION: $11,100 · EnvironmentPHIPPS CONSERVATORY AND BOTANICAL GARDENS INC: $6,459 · EnvironmentTHREE RIVERS WATERKEEPER: $5,000 · EnvironmentGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $23,375 · PhilanthropyCHARITYSMITH NONPROFIT FOUNDATION: $15,000 · PhilanthropyMARIO LEMIEUX FOUNDATION: $13,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $2,000 · PhilanthropyCARLOW UNIVERSITY: $14,356 · EducationWEATHERFORD COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 · EducationSLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · EducationFriends of Capa: $3,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · Education
Other$1,025,318Animals$215,550Health$158,225Human Services$96,548Environment$72,809Philanthropy$53,375Education$33,356

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC: $75,948 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PITTSBURGH: $69,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPLEASANT HILLS VOLUNTEER FIRE CO: $61,000 over 9y, 4.0% of budgetCAREITY FOUNDATION: $52,300 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetRIVERLIFE: $50,250 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetNATIONAL AVIARY IN PITTSBURGH INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE FORT WORTH ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION: $30,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $28,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $23,375 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNO DOG LEFT BEHIND INC: $16,000 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetSURGICORPS INTERNATIONAL: $15,500 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetCHARITYSMITH NONPROFIT FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetVanport Township Volunteer Fire Department: $15,000 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetCARLOW UNIVERSITY: $14,356 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARIO LEMIEUX FOUNDATION: $13,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPARKER COUNTY CENTER OF HOPE INC: $13,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMAGEE-WOMENS RESEARCH INSTITUTE AND FOUNDATION: $13,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRonald McDonald House Global: $12,375 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWEATHERFORD COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPYMATUNING LAKE ASSOCIATION: $11,100 over 4y, 9.8% of budgetBEAVER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $11,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGIFTCARDS 4 CHANGE INC: $11,000 over 2y, 77% of budgetDREAMLIFE ALLIANCE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetGuardian Angels for Soldier's Pet: $8,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $6,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPHIPPS CONSERVATORY AND BOTANICAL GARDENS INC: $6,459 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBaldwin Whitehall Athletic Association: $5,333 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOWARD HANNA CHILDREN'S FREE CARE FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOMPASSION THAT COMPELS: $5,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHREE RIVERS WATERKEEPER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CURE STARTS NOW INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRENTWOOD MEALS ON WHEELS: $4,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetWreaths Across America: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRASHEAR ASSOCIATION INC: $3,300 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWEATHERFORD BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL ASSOCIATION: $3,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCG ADVENTURES INTERNATIONAL INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBroughton Volunteer Fire Department: $3,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKITTY CO CAT RESCUE INC: $3,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCLUB HOPE FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetYOUNG ADULT SURVIVORS UNITED: $2,300 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCORAOPOLIS YOUTH CREATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetCLOUD COVERED STREETS: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSAVING HOPE ANIMAL RESCUE FUND: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds PLEASANT HILLS VOLUNTEER FIRE CO ↗
  • Who funds CAREITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds RIVERLIFE ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL AVIARY IN PITTSBURGH INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FORT WORTH ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NO DOG LEFT BEHIND INC ↗
  • Who funds SURGICORPS INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds CHARITYSMITH NONPROFIT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Vanport Township Volunteer Fire Department ↗
  • Who funds CARLOW UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds WEATHERFORD WAGS ↗
  • Who funds MARIO LEMIEUX FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PARKER COUNTY CENTER OF HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds MAGEE-WOMENS RESEARCH INSTITUTE AND FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Ronald McDonald House Global ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds WEATHERFORD COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PYMATUNING LAKE ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds BEAVER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds GIFTCARDS 4 CHANGE INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Pittsburgh Founda…Hillman Family Founda…Eqt FoundationThe Cigna Group Found…Edward B Dunlap Jr Fo…The Grable FoundationRichard King Mellon F…The United Way of Sou…C F Holdship Charitab…Upmc GroupChurch Brew Works Fou…The Burkholder Founda…
The Pittsburgh FoundationPA31× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Eqt Foundation · The Cigna Group Foundation · Edward B Dunlap Jr Foundation · The Grable Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · C F Holdship Charitable Trust · Upmc Group · Church Brew Works Foundation · The Burkholder Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Herbert G Feldman Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Herbert G Feldman Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 152 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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